As more details come out, it looks like I was spot-on last night in my analysis of the embassy bombing in Athens. Hot damn!

It turns out one of my coworkers used to work for Evolution Robotics, which made the ER1 I used in my robotics research a year and a half ago. It's nice to know that he agrees with me that the ER1 could have been a great ( Read more... )

As Ricco mentioned in a comment to my previous post, it turns out that we won the scavenger hunt with flying colors. We took first place in the scavenger hunt, and Sony gave us an Aibo for that (this was unexpected; we didn't know that there were any prizes). We also got a Technical Merit award for "Overall Excellence in an Autonymous System," ( Read more... )

Well, I'm now home in Minnesota. Research went OK. The last day was a lot of work though - Friday morning, we had a meeting to make sure that everything was ready and done. Then, Prof. Raugh decided to tell me that he had looked through my part of the report and had some changes for me to make. I spent all afternoon making changes, and getting the ( Read more... )

Well, the 2nd graphics card I got for the new monitor isn't as great as I had hoped. I can see why the CS department was throwing it out. So this evening, I bought a new one, that should suit my purposes quite well. It's a GeForce 2, so it's by no means a bad card, though it's far from good. But I'm not a high-end gamer, so I'm happy with it. It ( Read more... )

On Tuesday, Andrew and I went to the ACBL sectionals tournament. We were in the stratified pairs competition, so we were only competing against other players with less than 20 masterpoints (I have 0 and Andrew has 5). We did pretty well - we took 5th place out of 7 partnerships overall, and took 2nd out of 3 in our stratification. I'd like to go ( Read more... )